Following up on FishOutOfWater's excellent diary today, I want to add another group to the list that will abandon her in droves in November, should she win the nomination via superdelegate coup:
Teh Gays.
Yup.
We won't.
With all the antigay, anti-Dem dogwhistles, innuendoes, omissions, commissions, insults: Shame on you, Hillary Clinton. You know better.
More on the flippity...
Here's Hillary's latest slam against gay people, yesterday while being introduced by Paul Gipson, president of a local NC steelworkers' union:
"I truly believe that that’s going to take an individual that has testicular fortitude," he said. "That’s exactly right. That’s what we gotta have."
Clinton, standing behind Gipson, smiled sheepishly before breaking into a nervous laugh. Gipson continued by slamming unnamed "Gucci-wearing, latte-drinking, self-centered, egotistical people that have damaged our lifestyle," before endorsing and introducing Clinton.
(emphasis added)
In the video, Hillary rolls her eyes a bit and smiles, and then said nothing against this in her prepared remarks.
And of course there's this:
Gov. Mike Easley (D) raised some eyebrows when he said Clinton was so determined she made "Rocky Balboa look like a pansy."
And who can forget the times she forcefully, needlessly emphasized that Obama's "bitter" comment was made at a San Francisco fundraiser, which she said numerous times in interviews and debates.
One of the most pernicious things Democrats do (cf. Joe Lieberman) is to reinforce right-wing memes and modes.
This is what Hillary is doing: She helps brand the Democrats as "gay," and therefore weak, spineless, lacking "testicular fortitude," "pansies." Of course it's wrong, it's bullshit--and she knows it. But with her, it's all about winning, and teh gays is not too popular and easy to slam.
I'm not the first to say this here, but no way Hillary gets this gay guy's vote. Ever. Sorry.
But that's only my personal take. Politically, generally, Democrats need to drive a stake through the heart of the Clinton-DLC-triangulating-capitulating-war-enabling cabal that has held our party in thrall for nearly two decades.